INTRODUCTION TO WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Professor Nicosia is Superwoman…in disguise as a meagerly paid college English professor
A New Start
Similarity to Freeman??
Final Paper Criteria on Blackboard and the class Wiki
Professor Nicosia has more of a Facebook life than we do – this makes me feel…
MLA FORMATTING
Margins: 1”
Works Cited, not Bibliography
Tirschiary Lines indented
Titles of Articles in Quotes
Author: Last Name, First Name
1 Space between periods and the beginning of a new part
Italicized or Underlined for Magazine, Publication
Include the URL for websites
Actually Type “Print” at the end of a document you physically have in your hand
First Page: Make sure you have 1) your name, 2) teacher name, 3) class, 4) date
No extra spaces between title and first paragraph
Indent ½ inch at the beginning of each paragraph
Parenthetical Citation: (Author Last Name, Page Number).
Block Quotes: 4 lines or longer, indented on the left hand side, not the right, still double space
Punctuation: the period goes before the parentheses
Upper Right-Hand Corner: Pagination: Last Name Page Number
Cover Pages
Title Centered 1/3 down the page
Authors Name Centered
Course Name, Date Centered at the Bottom
MARIE DE FRANCE: Lanval & Läustic
Marked Shift in Narrative Style
Marie de France is a precursor for the novel form
First Person Narrative, an intrusive type of narrative
“To tell the truth of how I know it” unlike the authors of the Iliad, Bible, etc.
Similarity between Sappho and Marie – Feminine Quality
What is the purpose of Lanval?
See what the characters were thinking for yourself – i.e. the Queen, infer the motives
Marie writes from a psychological perspective: based on your reading, you create the characters
Understand characterization
Why should people care about the portrayal of the Knights of the Round Table?
Female perspective of the King Arthur-masculine tales
Males focus on the glory / Females focus on the romance
Cautionary Tale?
The breaking of an oath
Bringing to real life the feelings that are abstract / emotional
~Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes
Knights chase after the Holy Grail
Marie offers the romantic, emotional style – in a first person narrative
Modern type of perspective, Marie wrote in the 12th Century
Like Spongebob
Woman writer in a male-dominated period
She doesn’t apologize with “I know this as the truth…” – She asserts her authority
She becomes an expert of this text
Masculine writers attacked her for writing and “challenging” to equal their expertise
Why do we care about the Holy Grail and the Round Table?
Moralistic: their ethical stance based on morals
Code of Chivalry
Democracy: voices heard
Andreas Capellanus The Art of Courtly Love
Andreas was a monk
Wrote a summary of the responsibilities and goals of a proper knight/courtier
Art, Singing, Dancing, Politics, Science, Law, Public Speaking
It’s a Code, and the code (like MLA) changes over time
Jimmy gets satisfaction that he remembers what he couldn’t from last year
Castiglione – The Courtier (1528)
[FOR MONDAY (NOVEMBER 23) We’re going to wiki on “Courtly Love”]
The List: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/themes/amore/art_of_courtly_love.shtml
Physiognomy – the codification of physical attributes and spiritual personality
Blazon – physical description of a knight from the head down
Women had attributes considered ideal: (12th Century)
High, wide forehead
Gap between Teeth
Wide set eyes … i.e. the Hammerhead Shark
Long neck… it’s sensual (African-ish necklaces stretch neck)
According to Andreas, you do not engage in sexual play, just intimately on side
Homosexuality
3rd Lateran Council: 1179 – sodomy is punished
Marie de France writes around 1160
Andreas writes around 1170-1174
Queen accuses Lanval of corrupting her husband of homosexuality
CLOSING REMARKS
Wiki discussion for today to be posted tonight
Discussion is put up on Wiki over the weekend to be put in for the missed class on Monday
2 Wikis for this week
CLASS WILL NOT MEET ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23
CLASS WILL MEET ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Professor Nicosia is Superwoman…in disguise as a meagerly paid college English professor
A New Start
Similarity to Freeman??
Final Paper Criteria on Blackboard and the class Wiki
Professor Nicosia has more of a Facebook life than we do – this makes me feel…
MLA FORMATTING
Margins: 1”
Works Cited, not Bibliography
Tirschiary Lines indented
Titles of Articles in Quotes
Author: Last Name, First Name
1 Space between periods and the beginning of a new part
Italicized or Underlined for Magazine, Publication
Include the URL for websites
Actually Type “Print” at the end of a document you physically have in your hand
OWL at Purdue: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/
First Page: Make sure you have 1) your name, 2) teacher name, 3) class, 4) date
No extra spaces between title and first paragraph
Indent ½ inch at the beginning of each paragraph
Parenthetical Citation: (Author Last Name, Page Number).
Block Quotes: 4 lines or longer, indented on the left hand side, not the right, still double space
Punctuation: the period goes before the parentheses
Upper Right-Hand Corner: Pagination: Last Name Page Number
Cover Pages
Title Centered 1/3 down the page
Authors Name Centered
Course Name, Date Centered at the Bottom
MARIE DE FRANCE: Lanval & Läustic
Marked Shift in Narrative Style
Marie de France is a precursor for the novel form
First Person Narrative, an intrusive type of narrative
“To tell the truth of how I know it” unlike the authors of the Iliad, Bible, etc.
Similarity between Sappho and Marie – Feminine Quality
What is the purpose of Lanval?
See what the characters were thinking for yourself – i.e. the Queen, infer the motives
Marie writes from a psychological perspective: based on your reading, you create the characters
Understand characterization
Why should people care about the portrayal of the Knights of the Round Table?
Female perspective of the King Arthur-masculine tales
Males focus on the glory / Females focus on the romance
Cautionary Tale?
The breaking of an oath
Bringing to real life the feelings that are abstract / emotional
~Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes
Knights chase after the Holy Grail
Marie offers the romantic, emotional style – in a first person narrative
Modern type of perspective, Marie wrote in the 12th Century
Like Spongebob
Woman writer in a male-dominated period
She doesn’t apologize with “I know this as the truth…” – She asserts her authority
She becomes an expert of this text
Masculine writers attacked her for writing and “challenging” to equal their expertise
Why do we care about the Holy Grail and the Round Table?
Moralistic: their ethical stance based on morals
Code of Chivalry
Democracy: voices heard
Andreas Capellanus
The Art of Courtly Love
Andreas was a monk
Wrote a summary of the responsibilities and goals of a proper knight/courtier
Art, Singing, Dancing, Politics, Science, Law, Public Speaking
It’s a Code, and the code (like MLA) changes over time
Jimmy gets satisfaction that he remembers what he couldn’t from last year
Castiglione – The Courtier (1528)
[FOR MONDAY (NOVEMBER 23) We’re going to wiki on “Courtly Love”]
The List: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/themes/amore/art_of_courtly_love.shtml
Physiognomy – the codification of physical attributes and spiritual personality
Blazon – physical description of a knight from the head down
Women had attributes considered ideal: (12th Century)
High, wide forehead
Gap between Teeth
Wide set eyes … i.e. the Hammerhead Shark
Long neck… it’s sensual (African-ish necklaces stretch neck)
According to Andreas, you do not engage in sexual play, just intimately on side
Homosexuality
3rd Lateran Council: 1179 – sodomy is punished
Marie de France writes around 1160
Andreas writes around 1170-1174
Queen accuses Lanval of corrupting her husband of homosexuality
CLOSING REMARKS
Wiki discussion for today to be posted tonight
Discussion is put up on Wiki over the weekend to be put in for the missed class on Monday
2 Wikis for this week
CLASS WILL NOT MEET ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23
CLASS WILL MEET ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
-James Smith, November 18, 2009